ELUARD Paul (1895 - 1952) MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Paul Eluard", Paris July 18, 1932; 3 pages in-4 on blue paper. Political manifesto, marking the rallying of part of the Surrealist group to communism and the Soviet revolution. Despite the scourges it engenders, we must not forget that war "has been and must be the all-powerful governor, the vigorous gas pedal of the class struggle and the decisive factor in the Proletarian Revolution, provided that it is transformed from an imperialist war into a civil war". The signatories call for a war against French imperialism, in which the proletariat would draw inspiration from the Russian example of 1917. They are not pacifists: "There is no peace possible in a capitalist regime" where we prepare for war, first and foremost against the U.S.S.R.: "Aggressed or not, the U.S.S.R., the only nation that can speak of peace without hypocrisy, may be led, from one day to the next, to wage war to defend socialist conquests". And they will be at the side of the Red Army. On the eve of the opening of the Congress of All Parties Against the War, they spoke out against Henri Barbusse and Romain Rolland, who condemned the war, and against the socialists "Vandervelde, Adler, Renaudel, Breitscheid and others who so shamefully betrayed the proletariat in 1914, and who have been bent on saving capitalism ever since, breaking the class struggle and revolutions. No sacred union of the revolutionary proletariat with the treacherous leaders of the Socialist International and the Amsterdam Trade Union Federation [...]. [...]. A united front can only be achieved once "all these impostors" have been unmasked. They want to make their ideas heard in Geneva, but the Communist parties are not sufficiently organized. That's why they appeal to the "Internationale des Écrivains Révolutionnaires" (International of Revolutionary Writers) to be represented at this congress by its French section, where we find it hard to understand why we can't appear on the same level as "the seven surrealists (?) who," says our comrade Vaillant-Couturier, "are already welcomed in the literary section" and, even more so, as "the idealist attracted by the powerful influence of Marxism (!!) who appears in the philosophical section". Long live the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat against imperialist war! Long live the alliance of the victorious Russian Revolution and the French workers against Western imperialism!" Following are the names of the signatories: alongside Eluard himself, André Breton, Roger Caillois, René Char, René Crevel, Jules-Michel Monnerot, Benjamin Péret, Guy Rosey, Yves Tanguy, André Thirion, Pierre Yoyotte and others.